ok, so this it what I originally posted, which apparently seems correct but as AmenMoses pointed out g_Entity only populates for Dynamic entities which I hadn't realised at the time. Also, don't do what I did initially and put the call to the function in the _init section. Must be called within the _main loop section. Doh!

That's how I'd count the entities, if you want to only find activated ones you could add a check for v.activated == 1 as well.

there's also an variable in global.lua for the value
g_EntityElementMax

@AmenMoses-my code was similar but I was getting a count of 2 even after adding more entities into the editor. Thanks, I'll give that a try.

@smallg-thanks I must have missed that one in the global.lua file. Will play around with that also.

Gotta get back into the LUA scene it's been a while.

Bw
Mike

The g_Entity list only contains active entities btw, you can't get at static ones as although the ray casting commands will give a object id for them there doesn't appear to be any way to get at any information about them.

So you can count soldiers and doors and collectables (and helicopters ) but you can't count rocks and walls and stuff.

I've bugged Lee about this before, to maybe have a separate static entity list accessible from Lua that has name, position, rotation and size that we can then use in scripts.

Currently I can detect an object in front of my vehicles but cannot really make much use of that info because I don't even know what it is! Could be a building or a tree or a traffic cone.

Even better would be a way of directly accessing the collision box of an object, maybe as a list of coordinates, that way I could extend my zones scripts to include functions like returning true if a given point is inside an specific object. (or maybe Lee could give us a primitive function that directly does this?)

ok yes that makes sense although I'm sure I placed all dynamic entites but will double check. Also the g_EntityElementMax always returns 0. Anyway, will do some more investigating into the world of LUA. Not my main language but fun messing about with it see what can be done.

looks like there is some sort of bug as I placed more dynamic entities, doors, barrels, weapon etc into the scene and the count is still 2 with both AM code and my code:
Maybe I will try with a fresh new level but my hopes aren't high ha

Just tested my code here and it works fine.

Check you're using pairs and not ipairs.

both functions (yours and mine) use pairs. will try again later after work, must be something I'm not doing correct. thanks for the help though

ok I am a total plum, I didn't put the code in the _main section.... oh dear ...... Count is now above 4+ ... phew thought I was going crazy

phew that's better.....gonna have a lot of fun with this and waypoints plus floating bridges etc.....
g_EntityElementMax also working...again I put the call in _init instead of _main (what a dope ha)